Natsuki

Natsuki tastes like its own weather. The first element, natsu, means summer in Japanese, and the ki that follows can be written with characters for tree, hope, or radiance depending on the parents' choice. The name works for boys and girls alike and has trended upward in Japan since the 1990s, part of a wave of unisex given names built from seasonal imagery. English speakers find the three syllables easy: nah-tsoo-kee, each crisp and contained. It sounds outdoors, warm-blooded, a little sun-struck. A name with leaves in it.